TOROS & TORSOS The new Hector Lassiter novel (Coming this fall) "This is granite poetry in all its stone glory."    — KEN BRUEN, PRIEST Read more praise here. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hector Lassiter is a legendary crime novelist who writes what he lives and lives what he writes. But Hector frequently goes a step beyond, drawing friends and lovers into the tawdry and turbulent territory of his fiction. Now, the large-living pulp author has at last met his match in the ultimate performance artist: a phantom killer committed to the art of murder… a blood-thirsty provocateur who leaves a string of macabre tableaus modeled on famous works of surrealist painting and photography… Against the vivid backdrops of a killer hurricane that nearly destroyed the Florida Keys in 1935, the Spanish Civil War, post-war Hollywood and the first days of the Castro regime in Cuba, Hector engages in a decades-long duel against a cabal of killer artists… As in its Edgar®-nominated predecessor Head Games, history and myth merge, drawing on recent scholarship pointing to the existence of a dark underground of artists, photographers and art collectors that flourished in Europe and United States through most of the Twentieth Century. In a blood-limned haze of love, deception, murderous metaphor and devastating betrayal, nothing is what it seems and obsession and creativity collide in a wicked and unexpected climax that will shake the art world to its foundations… Read an excerpt here. Bleak House Books hardcover, September 2008: ISBN-13: 978-1-60648-000-7 Bleak House Books trade paperback, September 2008: ISBN-13: 978-1-60648-001-4 Evidence Collection, September 2008: ISBN-13: 978-1-60648-002-1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEE THE BOOK TRAILER  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PRAISE FOR TOROS & TORSOS "Craig McDonald's novel is astounding, covering everything from top class mystery to a real depiction of such notaries as The Surrealists and Hemingway and literally makes them live and breathe. I always felt I had a good grasp on Hemingway, now I feel I know him, such is the sheer artistry of the writing. This is granite poetry in all its stone glory. Cross Cormac McCarthy with Craig Holden and throw in the wizardry of Pete Dexter, then you come close to realizing how amazing this novel is."    — KEN BRUEN, PRIEST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Published by Bleak House Books